St Andrew's Episcopal Church, Abbey Court, Kelso is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 July 1980. Church. 1 related planning application.
St Andrew's Episcopal Church, Abbey Court, Kelso
- WRENN ID
- solitary-pilaster-rain
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 2 July 1980
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Andrew's Episcopal Church, located at Abbey Court in Kelso, was designed by Robert Rowand Anderson and built between 1868 and 1869, with the porch enlarged in 1890. This church features a geometric Gothic style and is constructed from bull-faced coursed rubble with yellow freestone dressings.
The church has a four-bay aisled nave, with each bay containing a single two-light decorated window set between buttresses, as well as paired circular clerestory windows. At the west end of the south aisle, a gabled porch from 1890 replaces the original gabled doorway. Two tall stepped buttresses rise from the angle between the south aisle and the chancel, supporting a small lancetted drum turret topped with a conical spire. This turret is adorned with small lucarnes and is banded with red sandstone and incised ornament, featuring a weather-vane at the summit. The square-ended chancel has two bays, each with a two-light decorated window between buttresses. The church is topped with tall slated roofs, which have ornamental tiled ridges and cross-finials at the gables.
Inside, the church boasts good contemporary furnishings, including a sculptured reredos carved and signed by James Forsyth, depicting scenes such as Moses striking the rock for water and the Israelites collecting manna, with the Agony in the Garden at the center. The chancel ceiling features fine stencilled decoration, and there is stained glass by Douglas Strachan from the 1940s.
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